Get ready for chaos as new “Looney Tunes” episodes have been created over the past couple of years by a new crop of Warner Bros. animators.
A new series, “Looney Tunes Cartoons,” premiered in late May as part of HBO Max.
“Looney Tunes” has been brought back from time to time over the years, but was somewhat modernized. The new “Looney Tunes Cartoons” more closely resembles the franchise’s earlier roots, reports the New York Times.
But one character will have somewhat of a new look.
Elmer Fudd will no longer carry a gun in his hunts for Bugs Bunny, according to the people behind the show. In fact, all guns on the show will be removed because of gun violence, according to The Telegraph.
“We’re not doing guns," said Peter Browngardt, the series executive producer. "We can do cartoony violence — TNT, the Acme stuff. All that was kind of grandfathered in.”
That “cartoony violence” will still include sticks of dynamite, booby traps, and anvils and bank safes dropped on heads.
“Some of them have maybe gone a little too far, so they might come out in a different format,” Browngardt said. “Maybe they’ll come out packaged for an “Adult Swim” type of thing.”
The original series began in 1930 as film shorts that ran before features in movie theaters, and then moved to TV in 1960. Over the years, “Looney Tunes,” combined with their sister series “Merrie Melodies,” have been nominated for 22 Academy Awards, winning five; with four inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
“I always thought, ‘What if Warner Bros. had never stopped making “Looney Tunes” cartoons?’” Browngardt said. “As much as we possibly could, we treated the production in that way.”
The creators of the new series hope their efforts have done justice to the directors, animators and voice artists of the original series.
The new shorts range from one to six minutes in length and star some of Warner Bros.’s classic characters, including Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck. But some forgotten characters are returning as well, such as Gossamer, the large orange beast, and the odd couple mice Hubie and Bert
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A new series, “Looney Tunes Cartoons,” premiered in late May as part of HBO Max.
“Looney Tunes” has been brought back from time to time over the years, but was somewhat modernized. The new “Looney Tunes Cartoons” more closely resembles the franchise’s earlier roots, reports the New York Times.
But one character will have somewhat of a new look.
Elmer Fudd will no longer carry a gun in his hunts for Bugs Bunny, according to the people behind the show. In fact, all guns on the show will be removed because of gun violence, according to The Telegraph.
“We’re not doing guns," said Peter Browngardt, the series executive producer. "We can do cartoony violence — TNT, the Acme stuff. All that was kind of grandfathered in.”
That “cartoony violence” will still include sticks of dynamite, booby traps, and anvils and bank safes dropped on heads.
“Some of them have maybe gone a little too far, so they might come out in a different format,” Browngardt said. “Maybe they’ll come out packaged for an “Adult Swim” type of thing.”
The original series began in 1930 as film shorts that ran before features in movie theaters, and then moved to TV in 1960. Over the years, “Looney Tunes,” combined with their sister series “Merrie Melodies,” have been nominated for 22 Academy Awards, winning five; with four inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
“I always thought, ‘What if Warner Bros. had never stopped making “Looney Tunes” cartoons?’” Browngardt said. “As much as we possibly could, we treated the production in that way.”
The creators of the new series hope their efforts have done justice to the directors, animators and voice artists of the original series.
The new shorts range from one to six minutes in length and star some of Warner Bros.’s classic characters, including Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck. But some forgotten characters are returning as well, such as Gossamer, the large orange beast, and the odd couple mice Hubie and Bert
https://www.pennlive.com/entertainm...carry-a-gun-in-new-looney-tunes-cartoons.html
